Terms & Conditions

General Terms of Use for the services of “Bosch Connectors” of Robert Bosch GmbH to be accessed via the website www.bosch-connectors.com (as per 10/2018)

Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Platz, 170839 Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany („Provider“, “we”) offers via www.bosch-connectors.com a platform to the topic of connectors (Bosch Connectors) where Users can, among other things, access information and add products to a wish list. These terms of use shall apply in the version valid at the time of conclusion of the contract between the customer (“User”, “you”) and us in regards to the services offered via Bosch Connectors.

The Provider operates Bosch Connectors exclusively for commercial customers and does not accept consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB as customers.

§ 1 Offer of Services and Availability

Bosch Connectors is a platform with various services via which you as User can, among other things, access information and make a product selection for later transfer into a purchase order with a distributor.

The services provided include, but are not limited to, providing data, articles, pictures, drawings, audio and video documents, information and other content (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Content”) relating to connectors. In addition, you can compile a selection of our products in a cart and transfer this information on to a distributor in order to purchase these products directly from this distributor.

We reserve the right to change or enhance the services offered on and to limit the time period for the use of the services provided at our discretion. As User you have no right to certain services or parts thereof being kept up.

You will have to register to use the services. Registration for the use of is free of charge.

If a service is free of charge, we do not warrant uninterrupted use. We do not warrant that the access to or use of will not be interrupted or impaired by maintenance work, enhancements or other malfunctions which can, if applicable, also lead to loss of data. We make our best effort to provide the services of free from interruptions. Technical malfunctions (e.g. interruption in the electricity supply, hardware and software errors, technical problems in the data lines) can, however, give rise to temporary restrictions or interruptions. For services subject to charge we warrant an average annual availability of 95.0% in our area of responsibility. Daily maintenance windows of , which are between 0:00 and 4:00 hours (CET/MEZ), are not included in this calculation of availability.

The Provider is entitled to provide services through third parties (including affiliated group companies of the Provider) as subcontractors.

The services of are solely directed at entrepreneurs within the meaning of Section 14 German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch), i.e. at legal persons who or which, when entering into a legal transaction, act in exercise of his or its trade, business or profession. In cases where a natural person accepts these Terms of Use as a representative of company, that person shall represent and warrant that the company is properly organized, valid and well-respected under the law of the country in which it is incorporated or registered and that the natural person has the legal authority, authorisation, or power of attorney to bind the company. You have to be of full legal age in order to register on . Minors and persons whose access authorization has been permanently blocked are forbidden from registering. During the registration process you are requested to provide information. This includes your email address, your first name and surname, company name and a password of your choice. No further information is mandatory to register for the free services on Bosch Connectors. Optionally, you may provide additional information on a voluntary basis when you register.

You warrant that information you provide during registration (in particular contact data) or when using the services provided on , is complete and accurate. If the information changes during the course of your use relationship, you must immediately correct it in your personal settings at . If incorrect information should give rise to costs, you are obliged to pay for such costs.

By submitting your registration information you make us an offer to enter into a use relationship on the basis of these Terms and Conditions of Use. The decision to accept this offer shall be at our discretion. If your registration is not confirmed by email to the email address you provided within a reasonable period of time, you are no longer bound by your offer. Upon receipt of the email confirmation, we enter into a binding agreement and we shall activate the access to the services. With effect from activation you have the right to use Bosch Connectors only as permitted in these Terms and Conditions of Use. In order to do so you must first activate it by clicking on the link provided in the email.

You may only register on once. Your registration, this agreement, the user account as well as your access data are nontransferable. As a rule we do not verify your identity or information provided by you during registration. Therefore, we do not warrant that user accounts are held by the person matching the information provided.

§ 3 Responsibility for Access Data

You must keep your access data and the password secret and may not disclose them to unauthorized third parties in any event.

In addition, you are also responsible for ensuring that your access to Bosch Connectors and the use of the services made available on Bosch Connectors is only carried out by you and/or persons authorized by you. If there are suspicions that unauthorized third parties have obtained or will obtain your login details, you must notify us immediately.

Please note: You are fully responsible for every use and/or any other activity on Bosch Connectors effected using your access data.

§ 4 Blocking Access

At the discretion of the Provider, the Provider can temporarily or permanently block your access to Bosch Connectors as a whole or to individual part areas if there are concrete grounds to suspect that you are violating or have violated these Terms and Conditions of Use and/or applicable law or if we have any other justified interest in blocking it. When the decision is made on blocking access, your justified interests shall be taken into adequate consideration. If, despite having been notified, you repeatedly violate these Terms and Conditions of Use, we reserve the right to permanently block your access and to exclude you from any future participation in Bosch Connectors.

You will be notified by e-mail if your access authorization is permanently blocked.

In the event of a temporary block, after expiry of the blocking period or after the reason for blocking has been definitively eliminated, the access authorization will be reactivated and you will be notified of this by e-mail. Access authorization that has been permanently blocked cannot be restored.

§ 5 Termination of Use

You may terminate access to services which are free of charge at any time by navigating to "my account" in your user administration section and selecting "delete user account" and completing the process by clicking confirm.. We reserve the right to terminate your access to specific or all services we provide free of charge, with a notice of fourteen (14) calendar days.

The right of the parties to terminate for good cause without observing a period of notice shall remain unaffected. Good cause in given in particular if a party violates the obligations expressly regulated in these Terms of Use in a gross or reoccurring manner.

In the event of the full termination of your Bosch Connectors access, we are entitled to irretrievably delete all data created in the context of your use relationship Bosch Connectors30 days after the effective date of the termination and any legal retention periods. Data protection provisions have precedence with respect to personal data and these may also provide for shorter terms for the deletion of data.

§ 6 Permitted Use, Rules of Conduct, Monitoring of Usage Activities

Your access authorization is limited to access to and to the use of the services provided at within the framework of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions of use.

You are responsible for ensuring the necessary technical requirements that fall within your area of responsibility (in particular, hardware, web browser and Internet access). We are under no obligation to provide advice in this respect. You must not seek to overload or otherwise interfere with the operation ofBosch Connectors. If you should become aware of any illegal, abusive, or other unauthorized use of Bosch Connectors, you can contact us at https://www.bosch-connectors.com/de/contact-us.

We point out that use activities in the scope permitted by the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz (TMG)) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz - BDSG) can be monitored and there can be a statutory obligation for us to do so. This also includes, if applicable, logging IP connection data and the course of conversations and the evaluation thereof if there is any concrete suspicion of a violation against the present Terms and Conditions of Use and Participation and/or in the event of concrete suspicion of any other unlawful act or criminal offence having been committed.

§ 7 Protection of Content, Right of Use, Responsibility for Third Party Content

The Content available at is protected by copyright, trademark and competition law or by means of other protective rights and is owned by us or by third parties which have made the respective Content available to us. The compilation of the Content on is also protected as such by copyright. You may only use this Content in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use and within the framework of .

You are only authorized to download Content (“Download”) and print out Content if there is a Download or print functionality available at (e.g. by using a Download button). We grant you a permanent, non-exclusive right to use the Content you duly Download from in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use.

The Content available at is partially provided by us and partially provided by distributors or other third parties (hereinafter: “Third Party Content”).

We do not conduct any examination of Third Party Content to verify whether it is complete, accurate or lawful and do not therefore assume any liability, responsibility or provide any warranty whatsoever for the completeness, correctness or legality of the Third Party Content or for its being up to date. This applies in particular with regard to the quality of the Third Party Content and the suitability thereof for a specific purpose and with regard to all other details concerning availability, price or other information in connection with a purchase order placed with a distributor.

§ 8 Data Protection

One of the quality requirements of Robert Bosch is to handle your personal data (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”) responsibly. For details, please observe our data protection notice.

§ 9 Limitation of Liability

For services that are free of charge, our liability is limited to damages caused by gross negligence or willful misconduct (Section 521 German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch)). The aforementioned limitation does not apply to damages related to death, personal injury, or damages to health, in case of guarantees or claims under the Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).

Insofar as our liability is excluded or limited under these Terms and Conditions, this shall also apply to the liability of our corporate bodies and of persons employed by us in performance of our obligation (Erfüllungsgehilfen) and of vicarious agents (Verrichtungsgehilfen), in particular of our employees.

§ 10 Changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use

Bosch Connectors reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions of Use at any time, also with effect within existing contractual relationships. You shall be notified of any such amendments by email at least 30 calendar days prior to the planned effective date of such changes. If you do not object to them within 30 days after receipt of the notification and continue to use the services also after expiry of the time limit for the objection, the changes shall be deemed to have been duly agreed with effect from the date of expiry of the time limit. If you do object, the use relationship shall continue subject to the previous Terms and Conditions of Use. In the event of your objecting we reserve the right to terminate the use relationship in accordance with § 5. You will be advised of your right of objection and the consequences thereof in the change notification.

§ 11 Changes to Services

We reserve the right to change or discontinue services provided free of charge at Bosch Connectors at any time, to make available new services free of charge or introduce fees for new or existing services. We shall take your legitimate interests into consideration.

General Provisions

Detailed information about us as the Provider is available on our web site Bosch Connectors under “Imprint/Company Information” (called “Impressum” on the German web site).

This agreement shall be governed by German law excluding German international private law and the UN Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are an entrepreneur, solely the courts with jurisdiction at the registered office of the Provider shall have jurisdiction and venue. We also have the right to file suit against you at your registered office at our discretion.

which could not have been foreseen even when exercising with extreme care, and

which make Bosch's obligations under these Terms of Use considerably more difficult or completely or partially impossible,

such as strikes, lockouts, exceptional weather conditions, operational or traffic disruptions and transport obstructions, discharge Bosch from its obligations under these Terms of Use for the duration of such an event.

If one of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions of Use should be or become ineffective, this shall not affect the effectiveness of the remaining provisions hereof. In such a case the parties are obliged to collaborate in creating provisions by means of which a legally-effective result can be achieved approximating most closely that of the ineffective provision in economic terms. This shall also apply accordingly to closing any contractual gaps.

Robert Bosch GmbH

Privacy Statement

1. Data Protection Notice

Robert Bosch GmbH (hereinafter "Bosch“ or "We“ or "Us") welcomes you to our internet pages and mobile applications (together also referred to as "Online Offers"). We thank you for your interest in our company and our products.

2. Bosch respects your privacy

The protection of your privacy throughout the course of processing personal data as well as the security of all business data is an important concern to us. We process personal data that was gathered during your visit to our online offers confidentially and only in accordance with statutory regulations.

Data protection and information security are a part of our corporate policy.

Personal data consists of all information related to an identified or identifiable natural person, this includes, e.g. names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, contractual master data, which is an expression of a person's identity.

We collect, process and use personal data only when there is either a statutory legal basis to do so or if you have given your consent to the processing or use of personal data concerning this matter, e.g. by means of registration.

4.3 Processing purposes and legal bases

We, as well as the service providers commissioned by us, process your personal data for the following purposes:

for providing these online offers on the legal basis of 'fulfilment of contract'; In case you voluntarily provide further personal data that is not needed to fullfill the contract, the legal basis is 'consent'

for resolving service disruptions and for security reasons on the legal basis of 'fulfillment of our legal obligations within the scope of data security' and 'justified interest' in resolving service disruptions as well as in the protection of our offers.

for safeguarding and defending our rights on the legal basis 'Justified interest' on our part for safeguarding and defending our rights.

for transferring your compiled shopping cart including your personal data to Holger Christiansen A/S for processing your order further on the legal basis 'consent'

4.4 Registration

If you wish to use or get access to benefits requiring to enter into the fulfillment of a contract, we request your registration. With your registration we collect personal data necessary for entering into the fulfillment of the contract (e.g. first name, last name, company, email address) as well as further data on voluntary basis, if applicable. Mandatory information is marked with an *.

4.5 Log files

Each time you use the internet, your browser is transmitting certain information which we store in so-called log files.

We save log files for a short period of time to determine service disruptions and for security reasons (e.g., to investigate attack attempts) and delete them afterwards. Log files which need to be maintained for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident is resolved and may, on a case-by-case basis, be passed on to investigating authorities.

In log files, in particular the following information is saved:

IP address (internet protocol address)

Protocol and port (Client and Server)

Date and time

Duration of the access

Transferred data volume

4.6 Children

This online offer is not meant for children under 16 years of age.

4.7 Data transfer

4.7.1 Data transfer to other controllers

Principally, your personal data is forwarded to other controllers only if required for the fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or if we ourselves, or a third party, have a legitimate interest in the data transfer, or if you have given your consent. Particulars on the legal bases can be found in the section 'Processing purposes and legal bases'. Third parties may also be other companies of the Bosch group. When data is transferred to third parties based on a justified interest, this is explained in this data protection notice.

Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers when we are obliged to do so due to statutory regulations or enforceable administrative or judicial orders.

4.7.2 Service providers (general)

We involve external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management, payment handling, programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have chosen those service providers carefully and monitor them on a regular basis, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they store. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply to the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be other Bosch group companies.

4.7.3 Transfer to recipients outside the EEA

We might transfer personal data to recipients located outside the EEA into so-called third countries.

In such cases, prior to the transfer we ensure that either the data recipient provides an appropriate level of data protection (e.g. due to a decision of adequacy by the European Commission for the respective country or due to the agreement based on so-called EU model clauses with the recipient) or that you have consented to the transfer."

You are entitled to receive an overview of third country recipients and a copy of the specifically agreed-to provisions securing an appropriate level of data protection. For this purpose, please use the statements made in the Contact section.

4.7.4 Duration of storage; retention periods

Principally, we store your data for as long as it is necessary to render our online offers and connected services or for as long as we have a justified interest in storing the data (e.g. we might still have a justified interest in postal mail marketing after fulfillment of our contractual obligations). In all other cases we delete your personal data with the exception of data we are obliged to store for the fulfillment of legal obligations.

5. Cookie usage

5.1 General

Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer when an Online Offer is accessed. In case you access this Online Offer another time, your browser sends the cookies' content back to the respective seller and, thus, allows the re-identification of the terminal device. Reading the cookies allows us to design our Online Offers optimally for you and makes it easier for you to use them.

5.2 Deactivation and deletion of cookies

When visiting our internet pages you will be asked in a cookie layer pop up whether you wish to allow the cookies which are set on our page or if you wish to deactivate them in the settings.

5.3 Overview of cookies used by us

Only cookies necessary for the provision of the website are used, which are stored for the duration of the visit.

Our Online Offers may contain links to third party internet pages – by providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is naturally beyond our supervision. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.

7. Security

Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.

8. User rights

To enforce your rights, please use the details provided in the Contact section. In doing so, please ensure that an unambiguous identification of your person is possible.

Right to information and access:

You have the right to obtain confirmation from us about whether or not your personal data is being processed, and, if this is the case, access to your personal data.

Right to correction and deletion:

You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning yourself without undue delay from us. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

This does not apply to data which is necessary for billing or accounting purposes or which is subject to a statutory retention period. If access to such data is not required, however, its processing is restricted (see the following).

Restriction of processing:

You have the right to demand for – as far as statutory requirements are fulfilled – restriction of the processing of your data.

Objection to data processing:

You have the right to object to data processing by us at any time. We will no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compliance with legal requirements to provide provable reasons for the further processing which are beyond your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Objection to data processing based on the legal basis of “justified interest”:

In addition, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time, insofar as this is based on a justified interest. We will then terminate the processing of your data, unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds according to legal requirements which override your rights.

Withdrawal of consent:

In case you consented to the processing of your data, you have the right to revoke this consent with immediate effect. The legality of data processing prior to your revocation remains unchanged.

Data portability:

You are entitled to receive data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or – if technically feasible – to demand that we transfer those data to a third party.

Right of complaint with supervisory authority:

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You can appeal to the supervisory authority which is responsible for your place of residence or your state of residency or to the supervisory authority responsible for us. This is the regional Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Wuerttemberg.

9. Changes to the Data Protection Notice

We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures if this is required due to technical development. In such cases, we will amend our data protection notice accordingly. Please, therefore, notice the current version of our data protection notice, as this is subject to change.